Republican doctors describe rush to chaotic train crash scene

By Susan Ferrechio

Published February 1, 2018 12:23am ET

Republican doctors describe rush to chaotic train crash scene — Passengers watch as emergency personnel operate work at the scene of a train crash involving a garbage truck in Crozet, Va., on Wednesday. An Amtrak passenger train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Va. No lawmakers were believed injured. (Zack Wajsgrasu/The Daily Progress via AP) | Zack Wajsgrasu

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. — A loud bang, sudden darkness, and the acrid smell of electrical smoke.

That’s how Republican lawmakers describe the train accident they survived on Wednesday, which killed a rider in a dump truck that was stuck on the tracks outside of Charlottesville, Va.

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